1
00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:10,680
Speaker 1: Thinner out. Okay, how's it going great? Good? Good? Yep.

2
00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,520
Speaker 1: It seemed to have a great respect for Mike Simmer Yeah.

3
00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:20,960
Speaker 1: Absolutely the point in his career, because he didn't become

4
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,360
Speaker 1: an head coach for the twenty fourth game, was there

5
00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:23,880
Speaker 1: a point in his career where he felt he began

6
00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,840
Speaker 1: to establish himself as one of the best coaches in

7
00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:30,880
Speaker 1: the league. Um? Yeah, I mean I heard a lot

8
00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:32,519
Speaker 1: of great things about it when it was in Dallas

9
00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:38,440
Speaker 1: and obviously when Cincinnati did a great job there. So yeah,

10
00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,040
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect from mIRC. I think

11
00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,760
Speaker 1: he does a tremendous jobs. Teams are always fundamentally sound.

12
00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,319
Speaker 1: He's got great schemes that lets played, good defense, good

13
00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:52,919
Speaker 1: situational football, tackle well, defeat, blocks, run, force past defense,

14
00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,040
Speaker 1: right area, third down, two minute, you name it. They're

15
00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,160
Speaker 1: always good. They're good Cincinnati. He isn't surprising for you.

16
00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,840
Speaker 1: Wouldn't a coach of that caliber doesn't become a head

17
00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,880
Speaker 1: coach until the much later in their career. Yeah, I

18
00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,680
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't make those decisions. You have to

19
00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,679
Speaker 1: talk to the people that did do that. I don't.

20
00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,479
Speaker 1: I don't hire coaches, you have to talk to them.

21
00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:21,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're looking for, so how prevalent

22
00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,319
Speaker 1: and just kind of explain the process if if you

23
00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,039
Speaker 1: could have taken information you get from the players on

24
00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,240
Speaker 1: the field to you know, maybe making any game adjustments

25
00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,080
Speaker 1: or play calls or something like that based off of

26
00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,240
Speaker 1: what they're seeing. Yeah, well, sure that many players have

27
00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,520
Speaker 1: a better look at and from where they see it.

28
00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,040
Speaker 1: They have better look at some things that we do,

29
00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,679
Speaker 1: certainly in line play and things like that. Um, So

30
00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 1: sometimes they can give insight into what's going on out there. Um.

31
00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes we're not sure, we ask them. Sometimes we're sure,

32
00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,400
Speaker 1: they confirm it. Um that we'll go from there. Really,

33
00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,560
Speaker 1: you were talking, I think on WI last week maybe

34
00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,880
Speaker 1: about giving feedback to players and sort of the effectiveness

35
00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,280
Speaker 1: so maybe in front of the team versus doing it individually,

36
00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,799
Speaker 1: and the value in each method. So I guess, how

37
00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,520
Speaker 1: do you decide to which players to meet one on

38
00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,040
Speaker 1: one with? And and I guess could you explain sort

39
00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:29,560
Speaker 1: of the value and giving feedback in both settings. Well,

40
00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,359
Speaker 1: I think when you're talking to eleven people, they all

41
00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,520
Speaker 1: need to understand what the play is, what the concept is,

42
00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,560
Speaker 1: and who's doing what. There's a breakdown on it. Then

43
00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,639
Speaker 1: they need to understand what that is. Otherwise they might

44
00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,240
Speaker 1: think they did something wrong and maybe they didn't. Maybe

45
00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,840
Speaker 1: it was another area that needs to be fixed. So

46
00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,639
Speaker 1: or maybe two guys or three guys all need to

47
00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,760
Speaker 1: do something a little bit differently for it to work.

48
00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,880
Speaker 1: In Amaze, that's just one guy that can fix the problem.

49
00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,799
Speaker 1: So it doesn't necessarily meant to anybody's fault. Sometimes there's

50
00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,280
Speaker 1: a mistake. Sometimes it's we need to coach it better,

51
00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,240
Speaker 1: we need to identify and explain it better. There's always

52
00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,280
Speaker 1: opportunities to sit down with players individually and just talk

53
00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,840
Speaker 1: specifically about what they're doing. That doesn't really relate to

54
00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,920
Speaker 1: anybody else. It's just about whatever is when we talk

55
00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,880
Speaker 1: to about them. I imagine you've had a lot of

56
00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,160
Speaker 1: wild ones with Tom, and I know teachers sometimes find

57
00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,240
Speaker 1: that they learn a lot from their students. Do you

58
00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,240
Speaker 1: find that that's fund the piece for you and Tom?

59
00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,240
Speaker 1: Are sure? Absolutely? Yeah. Tom's got great understanding of vision

60
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,040
Speaker 1: for the game. He sees a lot of things. I've

61
00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,560
Speaker 1: learned a lot from him. I mean I've learned a

62
00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:38,960
Speaker 1: lot from let's say, probably every player I've coached. You know,

63
00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,400
Speaker 1: what they see, how they learn what they do are

64
00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,680
Speaker 1: things that I've been able to take from that. I've

65
00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,080
Speaker 1: learned from what players do and try to teach it

66
00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,880
Speaker 1: to another player and help him get better. So yeah,

67
00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:59,000
Speaker 1: I mean I'm learning every day. Last few ago three

68
00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,480
Speaker 1: time you mentioned grand thing he did it all. How

69
00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,280
Speaker 1: did you guys go about valuating him, sort of finding

70
00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,200
Speaker 1: him when he sort of had these I guess the

71
00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:17,360
Speaker 1: limited roles in college their limited He started Scott Ryan,

72
00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Scotta Bryant, Joe Judge, it's those four

73
00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,680
Speaker 1: words of its sum It all up right there. They

74
00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,880
Speaker 1: found him. We have a player coming in like that,

75
00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,559
Speaker 1: on undrafted guy. What has he done to just allow

76
00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,560
Speaker 1: himself to sort of, you know, have developed into the

77
00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:37,920
Speaker 1: special team like he is played a game. Again, We're

78
00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,159
Speaker 1: not that concerned with what everybody does somewhere else. We

79
00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,760
Speaker 1: are concerned about it what their contribution is to our team,

80
00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,400
Speaker 1: how they can help our team, what their role is,

81
00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,280
Speaker 1: and that that determines what their value is. So whether

82
00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,600
Speaker 1: guy has or hasn't done whatever it was he did

83
00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,760
Speaker 1: or didn't do somewhere else, it's not really as important

84
00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,120
Speaker 1: as what he does when he gets here, what kind

85
00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,360
Speaker 1: of a role he can establish and how he can

86
00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,480
Speaker 1: help the team. So that's we give guys opportunity to

87
00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,080
Speaker 1: do that. As we evaluate him, we sometimes move or

88
00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,800
Speaker 1: change what they're doing to try to give them better opportunity.

89
00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,799
Speaker 1: But we think will be the better fit for them,

90
00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,960
Speaker 1: um on our team, or give them more versatility to

91
00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,719
Speaker 1: create more value for themselves and then let him go

92
00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,520
Speaker 1: do it and coach them and they work hard as

93
00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,039
Speaker 1: they get better and we keep going. So the snow

94
00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,640
Speaker 1: set formula just leading the team and the special teams

95
00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,760
Speaker 1: tap as issues how much growth and you ssue I

96
00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,080
Speaker 1: they would in that area. That now is the ad mode. Oh,

97
00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,640
Speaker 1: he's he's a versatile player. He's a tough matchup m

98
00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,040
Speaker 1: guy for our opponents and he's a good matchup guy

99
00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,480
Speaker 1: for us. He can handle speed, he can handle size. Um,

100
00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,000
Speaker 1: they can play inside, he can play outside, they can

101
00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,360
Speaker 1: play the perimeter positions, he can play the inside positions.

102
00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,599
Speaker 1: You know on punts and kickoffs, kickoff returns and punt returns.

103
00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,720
Speaker 1: So um, you know he's done all those things. Sometimes

104
00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,320
Speaker 1: we put them and that probably the position it's best

105
00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,240
Speaker 1: for him. Sometimes he does what we need because we

106
00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,279
Speaker 1: have depth and the position that maybe he's been working

107
00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,240
Speaker 1: in but he has more versatility than somebody else. He's

108
00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,760
Speaker 1: got a great attitude, he works hard, he understands what

109
00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,240
Speaker 1: he's doing in the complimentary positions, So a lot of

110
00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,400
Speaker 1: times when he moves, he's able to help the person

111
00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,159
Speaker 1: who took his spot, um with what they're doing because

112
00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,360
Speaker 1: that's where he played. So us He's got a lot

113
00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,520
Speaker 1: of versatility and uh, you know the matchup a size, speed, aggressiveness,

114
00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,200
Speaker 1: and instincts to be very good in the kicking game.

115
00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:43,279
Speaker 1: So outstand, I'm big coaching a long time. You appreciates

116
00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,640
Speaker 1: Keep reminding me of that every Frinday. We got it,

117
00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:52,120
Speaker 1: We got it. Appreciate these opportunities now more. Um, you know,

118
00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,279
Speaker 1: the laden season, to be able to pick up things

119
00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,320
Speaker 1: eight and three, to be competing, to have a chance

120
00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,360
Speaker 1: to go to the playoffs, to go you did when

121
00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,560
Speaker 1: you were young, or just seeing now hard to us

122
00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:05,560
Speaker 1: to get into this care Yeah, it's in all. Honestly,

123
00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,960
Speaker 1: I've tried to appreciate every game I've coached in this league,

124
00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,280
Speaker 1: whether it was an assistant coach, a head coach, first

125
00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,160
Speaker 1: game of the year, last game of the year. Um, really,

126
00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,720
Speaker 1: it's an honor to v inn this league. It's hard

127
00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,000
Speaker 1: to be in this league. It's hard to stay in

128
00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000
Speaker 1: this league. Um, it's a production league, and if you're

129
00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,960
Speaker 1: not productive, then somebody else will be something else to

130
00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,840
Speaker 1: be doing your job. We all know that when we

131
00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,600
Speaker 1: sign up for it. Whether you're a player or coach,

132
00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,800
Speaker 1: whatever your role, assistant, coach, head, coach, coordinator, it doesn't matter.

133
00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:40,120
Speaker 1: It's a production league. So I'm thankful for the opportunity

134
00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,920
Speaker 1: we have this week, and you know, let's try to

135
00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,560
Speaker 1: do the best I can with it. Worry about next week.

136
00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:50,680
Speaker 1: Next week. Jacy Jackson hasn't started a game yet this year,

137
00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,280
Speaker 1: so it's easy offended game any way through how he

138
00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,800
Speaker 1: respond to those situations that would be secure game. We

139
00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,000
Speaker 1: played players in different rotations throughout practice and so it's

140
00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,440
Speaker 1: who starts, who finishes, who plays in the middles. Most

141
00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,400
Speaker 1: important thing is when you get an opportunity to play,

142
00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,760
Speaker 1: to go in there and be productive and help the team.

143
00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,520
Speaker 1: So that's we don't necessarily know how that's gonna go.

144
00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:19,960
Speaker 1: They don't know how it's gonna go. We don't know

145
00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,560
Speaker 1: how the games they're gonna go. Um, but if everybody's

146
00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,160
Speaker 1: ready or whatever, they get the opportunity and they go

147
00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,640
Speaker 1: in there and don't do what they're prepared to do, so,

148
00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,120
Speaker 1: whether that's him or anybody else. So, I mean, we

149
00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,880
Speaker 1: don't really even focus on that. I don't know. I mean,

150
00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,360
Speaker 1: maybe that's important to some people. Probably is, but it's

151
00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,120
Speaker 1: not really very high on our list. I mean, honestly,

152
00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,560
Speaker 1: the most important things who's in there at the end

153
00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:41,920
Speaker 1: of the game, not who's in there at the beginning.

154
00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:50,920
Speaker 1: Two obsessions. He had ball skills, and these shows in

155
00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,400
Speaker 1: practice a day. Ball skills, yes, I'm sure you saw

156
00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:56,920
Speaker 1: in training camp and his hands on a lot of

157
00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,720
Speaker 1: balls in training camp, intercepted balls. So good ball skills,

158
00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:06,880
Speaker 1: good instincts. Fice loose for the year. In the Chicago game,

159
00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,319
Speaker 1: comes back dat he had a couple of penalties to

160
00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,560
Speaker 1: he's gay. They should have been called, maybe they shouldn't.

161
00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,439
Speaker 1: But then he comes back and makes a kick interception

162
00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,199
Speaker 1: and suons go what a bad play behind him? Quickly,

163
00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,760
Speaker 1: which is you know, seems to be good trade for

164
00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,360
Speaker 1: obviously a cornerback. It's a great trade for a cornerback.

165
00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,320
Speaker 1: It's a good trade for every player, but that's definitely

166
00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,600
Speaker 1: a cornerback. Yeah. Um, he's a very competitive player. Again,

167
00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,120
Speaker 1: he's shown that since the beginning of training camp, all

168
00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,240
Speaker 1: the way back in the spring actually you know, as

169
00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,439
Speaker 1: a as an undrafted free agent. So you know, he

170
00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:39,319
Speaker 1: came in here with without a lot of fanfare or

171
00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,760
Speaker 1: you know, outside expectations, just came in. It's worked hard

172
00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,240
Speaker 1: every day, it's been durable, dependable, and he's gotten better

173
00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,439
Speaker 1: every day. He takes coaching, he works hard at what

174
00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,959
Speaker 1: he needs to do to get better, and he does it.

175
00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,840
Speaker 1: He improves. So yeah, he's been competitive all the way through.

176
00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,720
Speaker 1: He signed players in the draft to free agent earlier

177
00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,480
Speaker 1: because he's a good good trade kickball. Are there are

178
00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,120
Speaker 1: certain traits that you might ignore that you might not ignore.

179
00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,839
Speaker 1: That was the other player that you it's going to

180
00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:11,040
Speaker 1: draft that. Hum, No, I don't think so. I think

181
00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,560
Speaker 1: you're still looking for the same thing. I mean, you know, again,

182
00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:20,120
Speaker 1: we get into those six seventh round, there's probably twenty players,

183
00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,200
Speaker 1: call it, I don't know whatever the number is. Fifteen

184
00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,680
Speaker 1: twenty players that are up there that you can probably

185
00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,400
Speaker 1: make case for any of them. Some of it's draft strategy,

186
00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,000
Speaker 1: like if we don't draft this player, we know he's

187
00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,520
Speaker 1: not going to be available as a free agent, or

188
00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,280
Speaker 1: maybe he is. We know he is going to be

189
00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,120
Speaker 1: available as a free agent. If we don't draft on

190
00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:38,760
Speaker 1: him and we feel like we have a shot at him,

191
00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:44,600
Speaker 1: maybe it's a need or some other set of circumstances.

192
00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,840
Speaker 1: Not saying that those are all interchangeable, but I think

193
00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,400
Speaker 1: on our board, like a lot of other draft boards,

194
00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,880
Speaker 1: at that point, there are another number of different ways

195
00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,880
Speaker 1: that you could go and and a lot of times

196
00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,240
Speaker 1: those players have sent it's called grades on them. You know,

197
00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,080
Speaker 1: certainly there's a reason why you take one guy ahead

198
00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:08,120
Speaker 1: of another. There's good reasons for that. But in the end,

199
00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,880
Speaker 1: a lot of those players, um I would say, have

200
00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,360
Speaker 1: similar grades, and their opportunities are relatively similar. There's people

201
00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,120
Speaker 1: ahead of them, and if they cannot perform those people,

202
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,360
Speaker 1: then they do. If they can't, then next year somebody

203
00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,679
Speaker 1: else comes in there gets that opportunity. So whether you

204
00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:31,160
Speaker 1: take a quarterback in the sixth round or a quarterback

205
00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,240
Speaker 1: who's going to be a wide receiver in the seventh round,

206
00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,000
Speaker 1: or whatever relative round Edelman was in, or did guys

207
00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,800
Speaker 1: like that, you just some of those, you you draft,

208
00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,480
Speaker 1: some of them, you you get it at the other end,

209
00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,800
Speaker 1: you know, the Jacob Hollister's the Malcolm Butler's the J. C.

210
00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,040
Speaker 1: Jackson's We've had those guys every year. Sometimes you take guys,

211
00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, Nate Dner or Joe Cardona mats later you

212
00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,679
Speaker 1: guys a draft those Brandon King doesn't get drafted. You know.

213
00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:05,199
Speaker 1: That's but that that I would say those level of

214
00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,160
Speaker 1: players college level, not pro level. When you're when you're

215
00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,200
Speaker 1: putting a grade on him, a lot of those players

216
00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,880
Speaker 1: have a have a similar grade six seventh round free agents.

217
00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,319
Speaker 1: So when you get to free agency, if you have

218
00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,520
Speaker 1: a guy that has the same grade as a guy

219
00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,679
Speaker 1: you drafted in the sixth round, and you try to

220
00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,760
Speaker 1: get him, and it's not that surprising when he comes

221
00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,040
Speaker 1: in and is as competitive, sometimes more competitive than than

222
00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,360
Speaker 1: the player you drafted because you had him grade and

223
00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,600
Speaker 1: the same. Again, for whatever reasons, you took one guy

224
00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:38,520
Speaker 1: ahead of another. But in the end um there we

225
00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,720
Speaker 1: value with their their ability similar and then obviously as

226
00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,360
Speaker 1: they play then that then those grades are are no

227
00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:58,840
Speaker 1: longer valid. What's valid is what the performances um. Yeah, again,

228
00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot of circumstances and sometimes you just go

229
00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,319
Speaker 1: with what the information you have, is what your instinct is,

230
00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,000
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of experience in this some

231
00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,839
Speaker 1: guys you know, we're going to get drafted based on

232
00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:20,080
Speaker 1: the amount of activity or other. Wherever you've journed, there's

233
00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:21,599
Speaker 1: a lot of places to get information from. However you

234
00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,520
Speaker 1: get that information doesn't mean you're right. It's just you

235
00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,480
Speaker 1: gotta go with what you go with. So sometimes you

236
00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,400
Speaker 1: you go with that. Sometimes you think you lay's not

237
00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,720
Speaker 1: going to get drafted and are shot of free agency.

238
00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,199
Speaker 1: We've been right, we've been wrong on that. You know,

239
00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,280
Speaker 1: at Castle, we thought he definitely would have gotten drafted

240
00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,360
Speaker 1: were signed with somebody else had we not drafted him,

241
00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,679
Speaker 1: even though we didn't really think he was going to

242
00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,079
Speaker 1: get drafted me through thirty some passes in college, but

243
00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,320
Speaker 1: there was enough activity on him, and certainly people knew

244
00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,160
Speaker 1: about him that had been at SC, that we're in

245
00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,839
Speaker 1: the league, that m had shown interest, that you know,

246
00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:59,000
Speaker 1: had a prior relationship with him, which we didn't. So

247
00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,360
Speaker 1: as an example, we drafted him because we didn't think

248
00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,680
Speaker 1: we'd be able to get him as a free agent.

249
00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,439
Speaker 1: When you're evaluating a college player, how important is it

250
00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,800
Speaker 1: to know the system that they're operating? Its busted play.

251
00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: You can call your friend Nick Saban and ask him,

252
00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,920
Speaker 1: maybe what happened on it, whether the player evaluating was

253
00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,920
Speaker 1: that fall. Yeah, again, there's there's not a lot of um,

254
00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,000
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of situations that really fall into

255
00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,560
Speaker 1: that category. But regardless, Look, everybody has busted plays. We

256
00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,520
Speaker 1: haven't in college, we have them in the NFL. We

257
00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,160
Speaker 1: have him on our team. We haven't in training camp. Um,

258
00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,040
Speaker 1: and certainly are the coaches, the head coach and all

259
00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,520
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches. We've all had plenty of busted plays too.

260
00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,800
Speaker 1: So you know, I think in the end, when you

261
00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,080
Speaker 1: take a player, you take a player based on you know,

262
00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:49,680
Speaker 1: where you think he'll be for your to what he

263
00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,160
Speaker 1: can do for your team, and that's why we draft him.

264
00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,840
Speaker 1: We draft him to help our team. So and not

265
00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,240
Speaker 1: all of them work out. It's an imperfect science, but

266
00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,080
Speaker 1: when you take you have an expectation that the player

267
00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,440
Speaker 1: is going to be able to help your team in

268
00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,760
Speaker 1: some capacity. Obviously, guys in the first round, in the

269
00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,320
Speaker 1: third round or seventh round, I mean, the expectation levels

270
00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,800
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But in the end, once they're here,

271
00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,640
Speaker 1: they're here. It doesn't matter how they got here. If

272
00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,080
Speaker 1: they came as free and sort they came in the

273
00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,120
Speaker 1: first round, or it came in a fourth round trade

274
00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,400
Speaker 1: or what doesn't matter. However they get here. They get here,

275
00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,640
Speaker 1: and then you evaluated once you're here and see what

276
00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,440
Speaker 1: they could do for your team. Blomes it across over

277
00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,200
Speaker 1: film on the bankings this year, have you noticed stadium

278
00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,280
Speaker 1: food home cousins. In his first year in that system,

279
00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,800
Speaker 1: he's had a pretty good year. He's had a really

280
00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:43,680
Speaker 1: productive year in all areas high completion percentage efficient, He

281
00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,480
Speaker 1: gets the ball to I mean, look, there's some guys

282
00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,720
Speaker 1: that are really targeted because they're really good players. But

283
00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,560
Speaker 1: I mean he gets the ball to all his receivers,

284
00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,960
Speaker 1: gets the ball to his backs, uses the tight ends,

285
00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,880
Speaker 1: obviously Rudolph more than you know, then Conklin and Morgan

286
00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,320
Speaker 1: who's been hurt, but you know, certainly use them. He's

287
00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,280
Speaker 1: used all all of those receivers. I mean, Baby's been productive.

288
00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,240
Speaker 1: You know, he's missed a couple of games, but Robinson's

289
00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,560
Speaker 1: been productive. I got a lot of him tread well.

290
00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,360
Speaker 1: So those guys are he's done a good job of that,

291
00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,720
Speaker 1: and I think they certainly he's gotten the ball out

292
00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,320
Speaker 1: and made quick decisions. So you know, that's offensive line

293
00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,720
Speaker 1: that's certainly the timing of the passing game helps the

294
00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,160
Speaker 1: offensive line. We know that does a good job there.

295
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:28,880
Speaker 1: I think he's had a good year. I mean, this

296
00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,960
Speaker 1: is going to be you know, four highly productive years

297
00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,160
Speaker 1: in a row for him, three in Washington and one

298
00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,080
Speaker 1: in Minnesota where he's going to be, you know, near

299
00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,200
Speaker 1: the top of the league and in a lot of

300
00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:44,600
Speaker 1: important categories. So it's pretty consistent. You know. I'm sure

301
00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,400
Speaker 1: it probably continue to get better, but it's it's a

302
00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,640
Speaker 1: pretty high level right now. He's a smart guy, and

303
00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,120
Speaker 1: he's a tough kid, and he's you know, have a

304
00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,760
Speaker 1: lot of respect for him. It's another guy who's kind

305
00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,200
Speaker 1: of come up, you know, the hard way, earn earned

306
00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:05,919
Speaker 1: his stripes. Um, but he's given him anything, he's got

307
00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:07,240
Speaker 1: to go out there and earn it and he has.

308
00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,720
Speaker 1: Do you know that the Patriots invited a German media

309
00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,640
Speaker 1: team for that game to commentate the game from one side.

310
00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,240
Speaker 1: One of your former players, Will were commentated in German

311
00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,960
Speaker 1: and German. Yeah, we've we've heard him. We've heard him

312
00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:29,320
Speaker 1: commentating German before, so I'm not what he's saying, but yeah, yeah,

313
00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,280
Speaker 1: he did that as part of a rookie show. He

314
00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,880
Speaker 1: imitated me and like gave a like talk to the team.

315
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,080
Speaker 1: Of course, he wasn't going to say what I was

316
00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,680
Speaker 1: saying in English, but he's you know, kind of making

317
00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,320
Speaker 1: fun of me and saying what I would say in German.

318
00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:47,720
Speaker 1: Of course he's only want to understood it. But you know,

319
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,480
Speaker 1: it's pretty that's pretty entertaining. I just want it's a

320
00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,680
Speaker 1: good rookie s getting unrolling, trying to learnating German. Yeah

321
00:17:54,720 --> 00:18:03,920
Speaker 1: I can, Okay, great, see you Sunday. Thanks